NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 165 
MUILLA CORONATA. Corm 4—3 inch thick, an inch below 
the surface of the ground: scapes very slender throughout, 
2—4 inches high: leaves 2 or 3 only, narrowly linear, semi- 
terete, twice the length of the scapes, the margins retrorsely 
scabrous: umbels 2—4-bracted, 3—10-flowered: perianth 
rotate, its segments 14—2 lines long, exteriorly green with 
bluish margins, pale blue or nearly white within: filaments 
greatly dilated, hyaline-petaloid, cuneate-oblong in outline, 
obtuse, retuse or almost obcordate above: anthers subsagit- 
tate, erect, fixed by the middle or a little above it to an abrupt 
incurved median acumination of the broad filament. 
Obtained on the Mohave Desert, late in March, 1888, by 
the eminent pioneer in West American botany, Dr. C. C. 
Parry. A highly interesting species, coming in as the third 
member of Dr. Sereno Watson’s well propounded genus 
Muilla, the filaments taking an unexpected phase, their broad 
margins overlapping, though wholly distinct, thus forming as 
it were a cylindrical cup or crown, from the orifice of which 
the yellow anthers are exserted a little less than half their 
length. In color the flowers are comparable with those of 
M. transmontana (see page 73 preceding). 
ALLIUM PENINSULARE, Lemmon in herb. Bulb small, 
broadly ovate, not deep-seated: leaves few, ligulate, shorter 
than the scapes, the latter 2 feet high and very stout, con- 
spicuously striate and glaucous : spathe monophyllous, acumi- 
nately 2-lobed, at length torn asunder to the base on opposite 
sides by the expanding pedicels: umbel 25—35-flowered, the 
pedicels 2 inches long or somewhat less : perianth deep red- 
purple, the ovate-oblong and slenderly acuminate segments 6 
or 7 lines long: filaments scarcely half as long as the 
perianth-segments, triangularly dilated below : ovary scarcely 
crested. 
Las Cruces Canon, near San Rafael Valley, 42 miles east of 
Ensenada, Lower California, 4 May, 1888, J. G. Lemmon. 
Plant as large and as showy as A. unifolium ; but the bulk 
as in the ordinary species of the genus. 
Issued June 15, 1888. 
